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* Played with in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', [[CainAndAbel Blutarch and Redmon Mann]]'s father, Zepheniah Mann gave his estates, accounts, debts, and tobacco plantations to his Maid, Elizabeth, whose descendants turned it into TF industries; his company, Mann Co, to his aide Barnabus Hale; and left his "useless sons" the entirety of the land he bought in America... to share. Needless to say, they spent their entire lives fighting over it, despite said land being considered useless, and convinced themselves the entire world economy ran on gravel, which they had in abundance.

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* Played with in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', [[CainAndAbel Blutarch and Redmon Mann]]'s father, Zepheniah Mann gave his estates, accounts, debts, and tobacco plantations to his Maid, Elizabeth, whose descendants turned it into TF industries; Industries; his company, Mann Co, to his aide Barnabus Hale; and left his "useless sons" the entirety of the land he bought in America... to share. Needless to say, they spent their entire lives fighting over it, despite said land being considered useless, and convinced themselves the entire world economy ran on gravel, which they had in abundance.



** Note that this was ''after'' he'd already disinherited most of the family, changing his will to leave 97% of his $4.5 billion fortune to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (a charity founded by and named for his father, who also founded the Hilton Hotels chain) and the remaining 3% to be divided between his children and grandchildren, when he had originally planned for them to receive everything. This, too, is supposedly due to being embarrassed about Paris' (and her sister Nicky's) behavior and perception to the public.

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** Note that this was ''after'' he'd already disinherited most of the family, changing his will to leave 97% of his $4.5 $2.3 billion fortune to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (a charity founded by and named for his father, who also founded the Hilton Hotels chain) and the remaining 3% to be divided between his children and grandchildren, when he had originally planned for them to receive everything. This, too, is This was supposedly due done to being embarrassed about Paris' (and her sister Nicky's) behavior and perception to the public.emulate his father, who had done something similar in his will.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TopCatAndTheBeverlyHillsCats'': At the start of the film, Benny saved a wealthy woman's life. Because she hated all her relatives (besides a missing niece), she left her entire estate to him. [[OnOneCondition Assuming the niece doesn't reappear and nothing happens to him within 48 hours from her death]]. Of course, then it turns out she's faked her death.



* ''WesternAnimation/TopCat and the Beverly Hills Cats'': Benny saved a wealthy woman's life. Because she hated all her relatives (besides a missing niece), she left her entire estate to him. [[OnOneCondition Assuming the niece doesn't reappear and nothing happens to him within 48 hours of her death]]. [[spoiler: Of course, then it turns out she's faked her death.]]

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* In the short story "[[https://www.portergaud.edu/uploaded/technology/digitaltextbooks/6thshortstoryunit.pdf You Can't Take It With You]]", the [[TheScrooge rich and miserly]] Uncle Basil frequently has to put up with his money-grubbing DysfunctionalFamily, who often use the TitleDrop at him. After he dies and is cremated, the family scrambles around his will only to see one sentence: "''I did take it with me''". Basil had hidden all his money in his coffin, which gets cremated with him. [[PetTheDog He did however]], leave a modest sum and his house to his nephew, the WhiteSheep of the family.

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* In the short story "[[https://www.portergaud.edu/uploaded/technology/digitaltextbooks/6thshortstoryunit.pdf You Can't Take It With You]]", the [[TheScrooge rich and miserly]] Uncle Basil frequently has to put up with his money-grubbing DysfunctionalFamily, who often use the TitleDrop at him. After he dies and is cremated, the family scrambles around his will only to see find one sentence: "''I did take it with me''". Basil had hidden all his money in his coffin, which gets cremated with him. [[PetTheDog He did however]], leave a modest sum and his house to his nephew, the WhiteSheep of the family.



--> ''"I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing."''

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--> ''"I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like [[IdleRich doing nothing.nothing]]."''


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* According to Creator/AndersonCooper, son of the famously wealthy [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Vanderbilt Gloria Vanderbilt]], he's disinherited from the family fortune (or what's left of it), to teach him the value of [[SelfMadeMan making his own money]].

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